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Sam Nzima (August 8, 1934 - May 12, 2018)
Sam Nzima (August 8, 1934 - May 12, 2018)
Sam Nzima (8 August 1934 – 12 May 2018)
SA Legendary PhotoJournalist Sam Nzima Dead At 83
New Post has been published on https://zulusound.co.za/sa-legendary-photojournalist-sam-nzima-dead-at-83/
SA Legendary PhotoJournalist Sam Nzima Dead At 83
The man who took the picture of a dying Hector Pieterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubu during the June 16 1976 has died.
Sam Nzima died last night at the Rob Ferreira Hospital in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga at the age of 83. His daughter Bongi Nzima confirmed the news to Sunday World last night.
“He was admitted to the hospital on Thursday and we got the bad news today,” she said last night.
Bongi, evidently distraught at the time of the telephonic interview, said the family was still devastated by the news even though her father had not been well in recent weeks. She said he had been in and out of hospital with a number of ailments as a result of his old age.
Nzima was born and bred in Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga and had also retired at his ancestral home after his illustrious career that spanned four decades.
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Sam Nzima's iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson
The picture, taken on June 16, 1976 by SAM NZIMA, who was a photographer for the Johannesburg newspaper The World at that time, shows Mbuyisa Makhubo, 18, running with the bloody and dying body of 12-year-old Hetor Pieterson, who was shot by the police, in his arms as the boy’s older sister sprints alongside in obvious anguish.
Pieterson was pronounced dead at a nearby clinic, he’s remembered as one of the first casualties of the Soweto Uprising in which police opened fire on some 10,000 school children who were protested a law they felt was unjust.
“I saw a child fall down. Under a shower of bullets I rushed forward and went for the picture. It had been a peaceful march, the children were told to disperse, they started singing Nkosi Sikelele. The police were ordered to shoot.” - Sam Nzima.